Bug#594689: Still broken?

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

Hi Christian,

2010/9/26 Christian Jaeger <chrjae@gmail.com>:
> And it still hasn't removed any of the other packages that were
> installed by "apt-get install kdm; apt-get remove kdm" before (using
> apt 0.8.0). Why?

It could be that an installed package recommends these
packages you think should be autoremovable without problems.

You could try to see that with e.g.:
dpkg -l $(apt-cache rdepends kdebase-bin --important --recommends
--no-depends --no-pre-depends | sed '/^[^ ]/ d')

That should show you the install status of the packages recommending
kdebase-bin, for example.

If that is not the problem please include the files
/var/lib/dpkg/status
/var/lib/apt/extended_status
in a follow up. These files include infos about all packages you
have installed, in which version and which automatic status they have -
if you don't want to provide these information to the world you can
also send them in private to me…


Best regards,

David Kalnischkies